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Dan Maffei: Politics, Applications & Career

Daniel Benjamin Maffei (/məˈfeɪ/ mə-FAY; born July 4, 1968) is an American politician and professor who served two non-consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before being appointed as a commissioner to the Federal Maritime Commission, serving as chairman from 2021 to 2025.

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Dan Maffei topic overview

The analysis highlights Politics, Applications and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Dan Maffei.

Related topics
52
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
57
Extracted relationships
18
Concept neighborhoods
22
Bridge connections
57

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Early life, education, and early career · 13 topics
U.S. House of Representatives (2009–2011; 2013–2015) · 13 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Early political career · 10 topics
Academic career (2011–2012) · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Education
Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MS) Harvard University (MPP)
Born
Daniel Benjamin Maffei (1968-07-04) July 4, 1968 (age 58) Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Constituency
24th district · 25th district
Nominated by
Donald Trump · Barack Obama
Party
Democratic
Preceded by
Michael Khouri · Himself · Richard Lidinsky · Ann Marie Buerkle · James T. Walsh

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life, education, and early career

Early political career

U.S. House of Representatives (2009–2011; 2013–2015)

Academic career (2011–2012)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Dan Maffei connects Entity context

The extracted context around Dan Maffei shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Dan Maffei → Ann Marie Buerkle, Himself, James T. Walsh, Michael Khouri, Richard Lidinsky Another extracted example is Dan Maffei → Ann Marie Buerkle, Himself, John Katko, Louis E. Sola. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Dan Maffei

Top relations

Preceded by · 5
Dan Maffei → Ann Marie Buerkle, Himself, James T. Walsh, Michael Khouri, Richard Lidinsky
Succeeded by · 4
Dan Maffei → Ann Marie Buerkle, Himself, John Katko, Louis E. Sola
Constituency · 2
Dan Maffei → 24th district, 25th district
Nominated by · 2
Dan Maffei → Barack Obama, Donald Trump
Born · 1
Dan Maffei → Daniel Benjamin Maffei (1968-07-04) July 4, 1968 (age 58) Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Education · 1
Dan Maffei → Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MS) Harvard University (MPP)
Party · 1
Dan Maffei → Democratic
President · 1
Dan Maffei → Joe Biden
Spouse · 1
Dan Maffei → Abby Davidson

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

maffei district november republican buerkle new syracuse congressional 25th walsh democratic 2011 2012 campaign university 24th 2008 seat race federal

Dan Maffei relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Dan Maffei. Examples in this analysis include Dan Maffei → Born → Daniel Benjamin Maffei (1968-07-04) July 4, 1968 (age 58) Syracuse, New York, U.S. and Dan Maffei → Constituency → 24th district. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dan MaffeiBornDaniel Benjamin Maffei (1968-07-04) July 4, 1968 (age 58) Syracuse, New York, U.S.1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiConstituency24th district1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiConstituency25th district1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiEducationBrown University (BA) Columbia University (MS) Harvard University (MPP)1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiNominated byDonald Trump1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiNominated byBarack Obama1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPartyDemocratic1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPreceded byMichael Khouri1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPreceded byHimself1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPreceded byRichard Lidinsky1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPreceded byAnn Marie Buerkle1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPreceded byJames T. Walsh1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiPresidentJoe Biden1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiSpouseAbby Davidson1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiSucceeded byLouis E. Sola1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiSucceeded byHimself1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiSucceeded byJohn Katko1.00infobox
Dan MaffeiSucceeded byAnn Marie Buerkle1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Dan Maffei bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include November, Defeated and Campaign. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Dan Maffei
    • November
    • Defeated
    • Campaign
    • Would
    • Republican
    • Seat
    • Buerkle
    • District
    • Ann
    • Marie
    • 25th
    • Syracuse
  • dan maffei
    • November
    • Defeated
    • Campaign
    • Would
    • Republican
    • Seat
    • Buerkle
    • District
    • Ann
    • Marie
    • 25th
    • Syracuse
  • new york's 24th congressional district
    • Congressional
    • York's
    • New
    • District
    • 24th
    • Ann
    • Incumbent
    • Marie
    • 25th
    • Buerkle
    • Seat
    • Syracuse
  • new york's 25th congressional district
    • Congressional
    • York's
    • New
    • 24th
    • District
    • Ann
    • Marie
    • 25th
    • Race
    • Buerkle
    • Democratic
    • Walsh
  • ann marie buerkle
    • Marie
    • Buerkle
    • November
    • Defeated
    • Incumbent
    • Race
    • District
    • Republican
    • John
    • Katko
    • Maffei
    • University
  • federal maritime commission
    • Commission
    • Federal
    • Commissioner
    • Maritime
    • Election
    • Professor
    • Served
    • House
    • University
    • John
    • Katko
    • Democratic
  • john f. kennedy school of government
    • Katko
    • University
    • Republican
    • Marie
    • School
    • Senior
    • Election
    • Syracuse
    • Democratic
    • Maffei
  • john katko
    • Katko
    • Republican
    • Marie
    • School
    • Senior
    • University
    • Election
    • Democratic
    • Maffei

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Dan Maffei, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Dan Maffei with Early life, education, and early career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Dan Maffei — Early life, education, and early career · splits 44 ⟂ 14
Dan Maffei — U.S. House of Representatives (2009–2011; 2013–2015) · splits 44 ⟂ 14
Dan Maffei — Overview · splits 46 ⟂ 12
Dan Maffei — Early political career · splits 47 ⟂ 11
Dan Maffei — Academic career (2011–2012) · splits 52 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Dan Maffei

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples18
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Dan Maffei to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Politics, Applications & Career, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Dan Maffei · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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